This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic,
and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the …

Exploiting the staggered arrival of fiber-optic submarine cables, we show that high-speed
internet promotes the role of banks and credit in Africa. Variation within country and across …

Theories of smart urbanism have overlooked the influence of contextual factors on the
conception, planning and implementation of digital transformation practices across regions …

Firms, workers, and consumers in developing countries are increasingly connected to each
other and the rest of the world through the internet. Can this connectivity transform poor …

Does ambient infrastructural quality affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing
countries? This paper investigates how the arrival of high-speed internet in Africa triggered …

To what extent does unreliable electricity provision pervasive in many African countries
affect job creation in the region? I address this question by assembling household and firm …

The use of the Internet to access news has an impact on African citizens' perceptions of
democracy. Using repeated cross-sectional data from the Afrobarometer survey across 35 …

Increased access to information technology changes economic opportunities and may
indirectly lead to changes in rural households' land use and the local natural environment …

Submarine cables enable international connectivity and are essential for high-speed
internet access. This paper tests their potential to improve the affordability of internet access …

This paper uses conditional mixed process (CMP) estimation to analyse the importance of
unpaid housework as a determinant of non-agricultural entrepreneurship among rural …